25. Too Late

It was deep at night as Lily tip-toed out of Dracula´s room, leaving him sleeping in the bed. She sneaked to the room where she had been many days ago. Silently she knocked three times on the heavy wooden door. That was the signal.

Slowly she could hear the doorknob click and Cassandra came out. She greeted Lily with a simple nod and rushed over to the edge of the staircase.

Cassandra looked around the corner to see nobody there. She then turned back to the other woman and nodded once more. Lily followed her down the stairs. But she almost bumped into her friend as she stopped dead in her tracks. Cassandra pressed her thin body against the stone wall.

Inquisition, she formed with her lips. Lily looked in the meant direction and couldn´t hide a gasp.

The men, who were leaning against the wall before they had heard the gasp turned into the direction of the two women.

With her hand Lily showed Cassandra to hide there before she slipped out of the shadows and walked right towards the men. The thing Lily was going to do now she hadn´t down before in her life. But she had to. For Cassandra´s sake.

She put a charming smile on her face and walked over to them elegantly.

"Good evening", she teased, hiding her great fear perfectly. Lily took a deep breath and kissed the one who was taller fully on the lips. While doing so his hands wandered all over her back and through her hair.

The other man grabbed the first one by his arm and pulled him away from Lily. "My turn", he said and took his place in front of her. He then pulled Lily towards him forcefully and smashed his lips on hers.

She wrapped her legs around his waist and leaned against him, imagining it was Dracula while tears streamed over her face.

He broke the kiss and started pulling her dress down so that it exposed her white shoulders. Lily felt his mouth travel all over her skin, his warm breath sending shivers of fear through her body.

Everything inside her screamed. She wanted to get away from this disgusting people, who had only lust in their heads but his grip on her even tightened. There was no turning back now. The taller man now continued to undress her further.

That was more than Cassandra could take. She looked around to find a sharp piece of wood lying not far away from her.

She picked it up and sneaked towards the back of the tall man. Without a hesitation she plunged the piece of wood into his flesh, making him let go of her friend.

The next guy of the inquisition was terrified and lamed from what he had seen.

He took several steps back while Lily fixed her dress. "The wound isn´t deep", Cassandra told the shocked man and then grabbed Lily´s hand, running through the towere´s door and into the cool night.

Reaching the near-by forest the two women hided behind a bush. Now Cassandra eyed her friend closely.

Her make-up was flowing down her cheeks, mixing with the salty liquid that was her tears. Lily´s once shining eyes were broken and the fact that she had almost gotten raped didn´t anything for the way she was looking.

"Lily, maybe we should-", Cassandra started but her friend interrupted her. "No" she said and shook her reddish hair, "I´m just too hysteric. From now on it´s safe."

She got up and looked towards the endless fields. "You must go now. You´re free." Cassandra couldn´t believe her luck. Lily had done so much for her although she had never given even the half of it back.

"Thanks for everything", she said quietly and hugged her one last time.

"They ran over there!", a voice broke this moment of farewell. The inquisition came running towards them at top speed. "Run!", Lily told Cassandra and pushed her softly. She did as Lily wished but she herself stayed where she was.

All that mattered was that Cassandra was finally free. So the price of being caught again was easy for the young witch to pay.